Coin-receiver.



M. W. PIPER.

COIN REGEIVER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. 1909.

920, 1 77, Patented May 4, 1909.

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MARSHALL W. PIPER, OF WOLFBORO, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

COIN-RECEIVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 9, 1908.

Patented May 4:, 1909. Serial No. 431,988.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARSHALL W. PIPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wolfboro, in the county of Carroll, State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Coin-Receivers and I do here y declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to coin handling devices and is designed for conveniently transferrin coin from a merchant to his customer in ma ring change, or from a customer to the merchant when paying for goods, and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the construction of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to rovide a sim ly constructed device of this character whic will remain poised against accidental displacement but which will yield readily when required to be used.

Another object of the invention is to rovide a simply constructed device of this 0 aracter operative from either side and which will remain poised against accidental displacement, but which will yield when applied to either side when required for use.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim, and in the drawings illustrating the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the im roved device, Fig. 2 is an end elevation, an Fig. 3 is a plan view.

The im roved device comprises a base 10 of any suitable shape, but which will generally be oblong and preferably in ornamental outline and provided with two spaced standards 1112 extending vertical y for a distance and then curving inwardly at 13-14 and then extending vertically again at 15-16, the vertical terminals 1516 provided with horizontally alined apertures 17, the apertures having flat lower sides 19, the ends of the flat portions merging at reverse angles into the sides of the aperture as shown at 2021.

The receptacle for the coin is represented at 22, and preferably in shallow d1sh shape and with trunnions or pivot pins 2324 extending from its sides and through the apertures 17, the lower faces of the pins being flat to corres 0nd to the flat faces of the apertures, so tiat the receptacle is supported in horizontal position against accidental dis placement, as hereafter explained.

Depending from the receptacle 22 is a push plate 25, preferably with its contour corresponding to the inner faces of the standards 1112 and the curved portions 1314 thereof, as shown.

WVith the device thus constructed it will be obvious that the receptacle 22 will be retained in horizontal position, and will require some pressure to overcome the inertia of the superimposed flat surfaces 19 of the apertures 1.7 and the pins 232 1, so that when coins are placed in the receptacle the latter will not be overturned, or caused to vibrate, while at the same time a relatively slight pressure against the push plate 25 will overturn the receptacle and discharge the com.

The device will be de )osited generally upon the counter in retail stores, or other localities where it is customary to pass coins back and forth from a counter in making change or in paying for goods and when a customer pays for goods he de osits the coin in the receptacle and the cler or merchant on the opposite side of the counter presents the open hand with the palm upward to the device and pushes with the ends of the fingers against the push plate 25 which will overturn the receptacle 22 and discharge the coins into his hand, and the merchant in giving change deposits the change in the receptacle and the customer repeats the operation above de scribed from the opposite side of the device and thus discharges the coin into his hand in the same manner. Thus both the customer and the merchant are relieved from the trouble and di'lliculty often experienced in transferring coins from one person to aaother.

The device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured, and operates effectually for the )urposes described.

The device may be constructed in any required size and of any required material, but will enerally be constructed of metal and suita bl plated or otherwise ornamented, and wil constitute an ornamental addition to the fixtures of a store or other localities where it is employed.

hat is claimed, is

A device of the class described comprising a base, spaced vertical standards rising from said base and provided with transverse bearing apertures having horizontal lower faces and rounded sides of the pivot located at the 10 and with the side Walls thereof arranged at junctures of the horizontal bottom faces and angles extending in opposite directions from the inclined side Walls of the apertures.

the horizontal ortion, a coin receiver having In testimony whereof, I afIiX my signature,

a depending p ate and oppositely extending in presence of tWo Witnesses.

pivot members formed with flat lower faces MARSHALL W. PIPER. and round upper sides and bearing by the Witnesses: fiat faces upon the horizontal faces of the GHAs. F. PARKER,

apertures with the junctures of the fiat faces K. E. PARKER. 

